“I saw him inject Anna maybe four or five times,” Brighthaupt told the courtroom in Downtown Los Angeles.

“I saw her trying to give herself an injection too.”

On one occassion in the Bahamas in 2006 just after her son died, Brighthaupt claims he walked in on Stern preparing to inject Smith.

“There was a burned spoon,” he told Judge Robert J Perry. “Anna was in the bedroom. When I walked in it was in the middle of being burned. “I saw him drawing up liquid from the spoon, it being cooked. I saw, lighter, spoon, heat, liquid, withdrawl.”

He also admitted it was in pill form before being burned and claimed Stern told him he was doing it this way because Smith could not swallow the tablets and it would be “ingested quicker” directly into the blood stream.